NATHANIEL
N
ern
French diet.
From childhood they were fed on French food such as pot-du- fen, rich meats with succulent sauces. and salads drenched with line dressings.
The rats grew up round bellied
amiable, ate their meals with careful appreciatus and showed marked excitability
of female rals. in the presence
THE CHINA MAIL, WEDNESDAY, JULY, 13, 1955.
GUBBINS
་
The gage, never fud the courage' to whites were intended to kill the cat the Dream Girl's artificial girls, particularly one in the wheat sheaves, never eve any next burding house who wore a "Good eyenley" to a girl who striped cotton frock and a wide was too sophisticated
to care straw hat decorated with arti about smoke rings. Deind wheat sheaves, popples, But at least he could make and cornflowers.
his shoulders as wide os, his
That was
why he appeared round the bandstand the next evening with the shoulders of his blazer stuffed with handker- chiefs, and got his biggest laugh, not only from the Dream Girl, but from everybody else,
OW it has been re rats being those selected to live that was growing towo, vealed that many thousands of refu
in goes arriving West the Germany from Soviet zone are not running away from the Russians but from their wives, wo can take a new look at the his tory of the British Empire. Foreigners huve often won dered why the people of Great Britain have, spread themselves over the world, To foreigners we do not appear to be more
reckless
She was probably quite an rival's. cadary girl but to Shrunken Whites the seemed too lovely even to look at except with fur- tive, sidelong glances.
Rats fet on the Russian pea- la alet of black bread and
At that time a man of 17 was webbuge oup became morore a bit of a dog if he could n and antisocial, Rats fed on a
smoke
without Japanese diet of raw dish, rice, hale cigarette and craba grew up small and clicking a blow smoke rings,
Others fed
21
One afternoon the Dream G I Love You' (Fortissimo)
Timo infor-
AM Indebted 1.0
mation that 31-year-old Gloria
the Magazine for Whites Vanderbilt has written her first a chair book of poems.
adventurous energotle. or more
typical in her wide straw hat was tif- than anybody elec
· American diet of rare sleaks ting in a deck-chair listening "***
to a concert. There were several that and Ice-cream became thought. Some have
their cheerful rats who, to quote stead of taking the one next to Dr emply stats to be had, but in- lied Englishmen have
only because of the Schenke, "ware depressed native land
When they were kept in small,
fior
Shrunken OCYVOUS weather, or because of the cook- ing, or because
confined quarters. They seemed spent his sixpence on of past un-
to want to go places," If he two scals away. employment, or (in the case of
had provided a dance band the upper classes) because som? toolby, flut-fooled girl in smelly
places
tweeds had refused to them.
marry
rate.
Gloria's publishers say That There he inhaled one cigarette the poems are her own per- with dot momma rings to no blew his smoke cona), poignant expressions of
red-hot momma to no purpose at all, for mood. Gloria told an inter- the Dream Girl took no notice viewer that they are all "serene of anybody until a witty,wide and raging, unique and true. shouldered young mair camo along, sat beside her and dis- played technique entirely new to Shrunken Whites. The young min pretended to cut the arti fleial wheat sheaves, on the Dream Girl's hat.
The learned doctor's biggest surprise was a heavy, stocky rat with rough hair and bristling whiskers who was "ready to fight at the drop of a hat," not
We can now see it la possible that these
chopa unhappy fought their way through swamps und virgh forest", swam rivers and sailed the seven seas because their offers of marriage
had been turned down but be cause they had been accepted.
Many a
tiger in the jungle may have been killed not be. cause the hunter had been Jilted but because it looked too much like the hunter's Engilsh wife in a bad jemper.
Therefore those
ore wearing hats this Sunday morn- ing, even the eccentric ones why
who
This unhappy creature had Loen
fed a typical English manual worker's diet of while bread und jam, boiled bect, boiled mutton, boiled vegetables, end ten. It seemed full of grievances and was in a per munent had temper,
If it had belonged to a union it would probably have been on strike.
are wearing them in bed, should Dream Girl
now raise them reverently to the frightening little women of England.
IN
11 further. attempt 10 transport you for n while But for their babbling tongues,
from the anxious present to the their shepherd's pies and their
enrefree past I continue my rissoles the people of Canada, small saga of holidays long ago. Australin, and New Zealand
The seene is the same is last might be speaking a foreign lime, Margate and Cliftonville, Janguage today, India night never have been won and lost, but as nine years have elapsed what made a little boy happy is
Chlan might never have seen not good enough for a youth of the red faces of foreign (Eng- 17. lish) devils, and Darkest Africa might still be dark....and much happier.
You may go to sleep again
now.
Oh, Rats!
more
The Margate that was his paradise is now considered rather vulgar and the respectable Clif- tonville that was his heaven has become his seventh heaven full of handsome, amusing young men and beautiful girls,
At 17 you took your holidays You caught an early
of my train, wall
talked fast to your board-| ACCORDING to one,
American newspapers a Dring Schenke 189 been trying to for, cabs or even trams) and
that we are before lunch you were prove once
in your what we eat,
"white" While rats descended from The "whites" in my case were the same stock were used for yellowing the expertmnet, the luckiest shravak in the wash and a blazer
T
flannel
trousers
From
then, on
Shrunken Whites holiday paradise became a purgatory. He knew he could never remember any music-bali
DID IT HAPPEN?
tender and thunderous."
they are personal expert. ences "tender sounds like a girl trying to tell and thunderous"
a deaf man of her love. Bu! even if Gloria did marry 73- year-old Leupold Stokowski, there is no evidence that he was deaf at the time,
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The Shuck
Dog.
Another story in our FACT or FICTION series. Did
thic tale actually happen? You have until tomorrow to
docide. Tho answer will then be published.
011 fact)
was
about, but, why gỡ on?, I had tried to
explain that a guarantee purely a question of contract,
when he bought on my behalf?
-Drawing by
Oliphant
"Yew was sucked in over that
THE lorry swayed
birds swerved
the
oner
another boundary. now," said Sam, "you said
nothing must interfere with the farm work
T one period of my (based life I chucked the animals. complicated ideas of an "intellectual" or The change-over period And for whom was he working deskman, for the single idea was pretty worrying like The fellow who had something
That had been the dream; or mouth, and return to wherever sailing a small boat in an to sell? of farming, or plow-man (I
winter of that Sam was working. conecit, and as unknown sea with cross<< Sam replied testily: "If you dorg." said the stockman to me preferred the old spelling), currents. This little story are going to take everything I later.
It was some consolation
your drew on, Sam, 1. rolled,
"Poor Rover," Sam sald. Previous to this I had made about Rover,
began to study the Situation Bny literally, then that finally to be called guv'nor after our a red setter, disposes of the matter."
series of fascos..
Vacant in his newspaper. He "You've had a bad time, haven't "What you
you? Crouching down while a name as a writer of fiction will, I think, fairly illustrate "I do expect every word to doin' buyin' thet dorg for? You complained of headaches; he
the muddle and confusion of be taken literally. What else wait till there come a tempest!" could not think, he said, in my guns went off six days a week
orc words for? To muffe |that period. Before the phy-
presence. He said he could feel in the season, 200 reports at Inets?"
They still used those old words me thinking for him all the this stand, 400 at that"-Rover sical body was "broken-in to
"You use them to pick holes in Norfolk. They didn't wear time. That was his explanation had come from, the great estate annual hard graft," as Jimmy the in my character. I have no- leggings or galters, they wore of why he had driven the lorry, up the coast, where
bag was anything up, to 8,000 stockman called labouring thing
say." Sam buskins. Jimmy explained that which had brought from,
I
wild pheasants Like being lapsed into digned silence. work.
he had seen dogs like Rover fee pe
Devon week previously with n' tall-down at the first strike of load of furniture under hoops under a Passchendaele barrage." lightning.
green canvas hood, straight
"Strango to hear you talking into its bay of the low cart what 1 know
that keeper
like that. Sum.". I felt a sudden dorg, guvnore_shed.ng though hoops and caravan, to farm 240 acres of We had our first shoot, and sold that
stick instead ture had not been beh warm Iceling for him......... left trained it with a
There was only six inches "As a matter of fact, I got the more or less derelict land on Sam to arrange the stands of wi' kindnesst. Now It be
Yarll see it in above the cab-top without those Idea from you." Then stockman, bruk, guv'nor.
were four feet my face,' he burst out with the "guns" a tempest, runnin' in the river, hoops, which
wire,
taller.
"You'll never know I looked up every drive, tearin' itself in barbed
could not help myself." to you, until 1.came here to hedges, or o-roarin' and a-bawlin' like the said Sam. "I could feel you pre work with you! All the time
Shuck Dorg."
jecting the crush from your I was abroad, and utterly lonely mind, and I felt helpless."
-you had been in the This was frightening for was too young for! And now had been anticipating the crash but I'll may no more,”
few
moments before
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I set out with my brother-in- law Sam, one driving lorry and trailer, the other motorcar · and
more to
First shoot
it was. a fiasco
with Jimmy, the
the North Norfolk const. Sam
myself.
was even more Ignorant, than details
'A criticism
of where were to wait at behind concealing in front of woods, The beaters, crossing
TOOLS
Also, he hod no capital and stubble,
differences in and
Very
soon the
that was the renor Idea. But some-
the
our outlooks led to a criticism would drive the birds over the by me of nearly all Sam did. ne of guns, To show the sort of chop he was; he drove my three-carburettor
job holding sporis car driving
wheel with two hands thing Ilke claws exactly at 12 o'clock. What would happen it a front tyre burst? How could he con- trol the ear at speed?
"If a front tyre burst at 40. the speed I go at, then all I can say is it deserves to burst."
"The tyre is sound," "Then what are you worrving about?"
"A rucing driver holds the wheel at twenty past eight. elbows well in, ready to krip in an emergency."
Wild birds
"I'm not a racing driver."
went
I hod
by Henry Williamson TARKA THE
early wrong The beaters came across Reld of yellow sugar beet sure enough, but at right angles to the line of guns. So, well out of gunshot, we watched coveys of partridges and pheasants in twos and tarcos clattering and rocketing sway over the houndary.
and
10
Haw.
OTTER (1977), which Won hint the theradan Prize, remains Henty Williamson's most romain book, although he has consolidated Als *f putation with his sages English middle-class life contrad on the character of Phillip Maddison, Fox Under My Clock to be published in the auİDMI- -the latest contribution to this 1orles.
As he explains here, William-
on used to form in Norfolk, and The Story of a Nortolk Fatm (1943) is based on the episode. Married, he now less to Davon.
I puid. Sam £1 a week plus.
time as the keep until such
The next drive was across a
what
↑
要
cccurred. But then I knew Sam, Anyway, whatever the cause. It was a pretty bad situation; and when one
Sam Friday
U11-
nounced that he had got a job
I am rather sorry
A
barrage
Bering
war. I
On the night Sam left we had
terrific
cluewhere, I had to fight against a tempest on the North Norfolk feelings of desperation, fear and coast. The lightning struck and
burned violet all about the failure
hill, the
under the oaks “In a wo to be going to set flashes seemed turned to stone I'm letting you down Any Rain fell ke a barrage, I feared way, I shan't be able to take for the metal caravan. Rover, Rover with me, so do you mind when I looked at him, began to leave him with you!" whimper, before fleeing with a
it
torn
At this the setter looked up howl like, aluminium sheeting at me, a coy expression on a silken snout, while in tall softly sweet my feet.
A dozen cats
ith
watching
more than 20 acres. It was our hand, sighing happily to sloc: rot-klilera. Sam, bad beca feed, my face turned and ran away.
best field, and we were mucking while I sat
at
pen
across. The Shuck Dog was a legen
The next day I put some dury ghost-hound that ran the
cartridges in the old-leather bag. He couldn't help what he marches from Blakeney to
and set out with Rover, gun birds did, Sam sald. They had Holkham Gap.
under arm, I meant to bury him under an old free. One of obviously wanted to go that way. The setter used to come into
us had to so they had gone, and there the the caravan and hold up a paw while Kazing
Rover followed obediently. matter rested as far as he was to be taken.
Already we had a dozen cats When he touched my hand with sweetly into my eyes. If I did.
I felt unhappy. concerned, said Sam.
muzzic, not take its paw it would whine coming up to the caravan among his - nuisance of a dog. Rover, the oaks and pincs on the chalky When I got to the tree, I found
Shuck
the would hill above village. They had left the cartridge a namet form made a profit, when we stubble field, from out of our have been more appropriate. I came from born and even the the caravan. Much refl would go 50-50. With
about Guarantee! woods, half-wild creatures with was Sam, Or
to go back when week's wages he bought, belleve Eight Acre wood, a large deld old
my left husky voices, lean flanks, and Rover, who had been judging by Dovon standards, There it lay,
paw In It or not, a dog. It was
distraught tho
expressions of shooting dog, he explained,
That's settled it, I. mid to my- the plywood
selt; 1 In right ing them.
I must put him down, as i running ho came They were moving in every walked back, wheres I was feeling in the box to me, cartridge bag in mouth, of tools under the caravan for Ho
tus master take a Badjustable spanner--what bred dog take it as a well- called a monkey-wrench retrieved bird, gently, from his
mouth, and Jimmy a crew-hanimer
Rover was a great favourite they with the children when came from Devon. So was Uncle Sam when he visited us, Odklly. enough It was ranked an "A" farm by then,
WORLD `COPYRKINT, RESERVED
DIO IT REALLY HAPPEN?
YES
He wanted to help me relax, it before ploughing for winter caravan' table. and had I not often painted a wheat. And just as the birds had, writing of the jocund joys glowing picture of ourselves began to leave the covert, before of yeoman farming. living off the land? Well, there the tapping of the beaters in
was
Why don't
move
+
7
Family venture
מזרא
tender
was prepared
to retrieve a dog
the wood, what should pheasants "when we had shot between the edge of the wood item. Our farm was 240 acres, and line of guns but the lorry, and full of wild birds it had swaying with two tons of well- To be candid, I know that my one morning and been used mainly as a sporting rotted bullock muck. The birds manner and monners were all for cold fron, but with a fart preserve, hence the
weeds, swerved, whizzing over another wrong towards poor old Sam. drew back my hand from we depression of boundary. over since the
Had not this gentle fellow lett tung very soft and hot, 1923, fourteen years before..
All welcome, 1 could imagine a job abroad to come home and "What the Why the help a family venture? The the mother ent purring, as she Often, sald Sam, I had, sald ·
fdon had been that should put touched my fingers with kitten- that we must have a shoot. "Now, now," said Sam, "I took the farm in order writing a sofisers. And mid to him,
you literally, You said, or night to earn capital, working by
"I hav you use your initiative? Well, rather yelled, that nothing must day to lead the reclamations, Rover's
have a great sympathy, for stalo of mind,” sald he had, and out of his own
and when it was done I was lo Sam. "I have trial to lead him puro, Rover was a beautiful interfere with the farm work."
leave Sam to run it for the into new ways, rather as they
Hy dog, a Red pedigree setter, have seen the pedigree;
with 'trent ensest of nervous wreckage; sharing profita I ab lutely
to build Rover,"
up guarantee
again will I wanted nothing out
tho Bald
BRm. Iknow
Sam's
forzn; I wanted to be free to He had trained the dog in. absolute Our next and last drive was travel like Somerset Maugham, barry the old leather guarantees. They
Cartridge own personal convictions. He tingulated by the behaviour to find new idons and subjects, bag which hund belongod to his had absolutely guaranteed the of Bam's dog When at last and out of literary earnings father beautifully View chikdiren's edtica=tociani hand-made Job from the It had been reconditioned and the guns fired
wom
Atempest.
old lorry we had bought, after "hard tame within gunshot ::add; provide for U10 Sistured" mywoll carieven every Janeta Bolzer, foye on taking delivery, "I had :105uther, ywać were upd/5Blancal
rotunning from a brodda Bar, had the atrocious fans to
round faulty brakes, did, baca mnalelir. The howling: dog tore
7 model v nemyla Tovoc used to run back to the terzi Abroken springet. He was aroma se boundary. In the interval to enjoy the light of use that bag tror andwicher had absolutely guarányaich cast osite direction from the harve: Englan
me
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